Speak up against Common Core

Wake up, parents, before it is too late! The Common Core Standards are in Indiana now but we have a chance to repeal them. They represent a federal takeover of our education system just as Obamacare is a federal takeover of our health care system.

The Common Core Standards are lower than the current Indiana standards. Stanford University professor James Milgram, a prominent dissenting member of the Common Core math standards committee, has exposed how the muddled standards would leave American students at least two years behind the rest of the planet.

The standards do away with 50 percent of classic literature in favor of "informational text." Who will decide what is "informational"? Some of the Common Core recommended reading includes material that is pornographic for high school students.

The most insidious part of the standards is the tracking by the federal government of each child from kindergarten to age 20 with up to 400 data points.

You must speak out now. Contact every member of the State Board of Education and your state Senator and representative and tell them to vote no on Common Core.

Janet Smith

Greenfield

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Speak up against Common Core

Wake up, parents, before it is too late! The Common Core Standards are in Indiana now but we have a chance to repeal them. They represent a federal takeover of our education system just as Obamacare